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The Gaps In Stored Data

Vendors that sell stored data purchase those data periodically from the jurisdiction in question.   The cost of purchasing databases from counties and states is increasing as their tax revenues prove to be insufficient, and they raise their prices.    Therefore, it is increasingly expensive for stored data vendors, and hence they update their copies of the databases less frequently.   Look at their websites, and see update gaps that are as long as three years !

This means that the time gap between the current state of the database at the original source, and the copy that they have, is increasing --- and the vendor's data are increasingly out of date.

The largest database vendor recently bragged that their driver's license database is updated every 30 days.   Federal law says that the report which the employer receives must contain exactly what the source (eg: court, or DMV) records contain on the date of the report.    Therefore stored data delivered today cannot be more than 24 hours old.   And, the cost of doing things according to Federal law is what keeps stored data vendors from updating their databases each day, for each jurisdiction.   Therefore, stored data that may be involved in an adverse action is ILLEGAL.

But all of that also masks another really major problem. These time gaps average three to 24 months long. An applicant could have been convicted of a serious crime during the time gap since the last update of the vendor's stored data --- and the unsuspecting employer would never know !


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